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English: The software that guided the U.S. space agency’s Mars Science Laboratory to its bulls-eye landing on Mars was written by Wind River, an Intel subsidiary. The software operated the craft’s controls from its liftoff in November 2011, to its descent in a swirl of red dust at 10:21 p.m. (Pacific) Sunday.
“Wind River’s VxWorks is the software platform that controls the execution of all of Curiosity’s functions -- from managing avionics to collecting science data and sending the experimental results back to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Earth using satellite telemetry,” said Mile Deliman, senior member of the technical staff at Wind River. Intel Free Press story: Stress-Testing Software for Deep Space. Mars Curiosity powered by reliable, upgradeable technology from last century. Intel Free Press story: Software Makes for (Soft) Mars Landing. WindRiver VxWorks software guides NASA’s Curiosity rover to Red Planet. |
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| Author | Intel Free Press |
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